Matthew 21:12-17 - The Cleansing Of The Temple

¹² And Jesus entered the temple [courts] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves. ¹³ And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

¹⁴ And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple [courts] and he healed them. ¹⁵ But [when] the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful [things] that he did, and the children shouting in the temple [courts] and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant. ¹⁶ And they said to him, "Do you hear what these [children] are saying?" So Jesus said to them, "Yes, have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of children and nursing babies you have prepared for yourself praise'?"

¹⁷ And leaving them, he went outside of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

¹⁵ And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered into the temple [courts] [and] began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple [courts], and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves. ¹⁶ And he did not permit anyone to carry objects through the temple [courts].

¹⁷ And he began to teach and was saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!" ¹⁸ And the chief priests and the scribes heard [it], and began considering how they could destroy him. For they were afraid of him because the whole crowd was astounded by his teaching.

¹⁹ And when evening came they went out of the city.

⁴⁵ And he entered into the temple [courts] [and] began to drive out those who were selling, ⁴⁶ saying to them, "It is written, 'And my house will be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

⁴⁷ And he was teaching every day in the temple [courts], and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him. ⁴⁸ And they did not find anything they could do, because all the people were paying close attention to [what] they were hearing from him.

¹⁴ And he found in the temple [courts] those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated. ¹⁵ And he made a whip of cords [and] drove [them] all out of the temple [courts], both the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶ And to the ones selling the doves he said, "Take these [things] away from here! Do not make my Father's house {a marketplace}!"

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it is written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

¹⁸ So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these [things]?"

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!"

²⁰ Then the Jews said, "This temple has been under construction forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"

²¹ But he was speaking about the temple of his body. ²² So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.